Brian started working with *nix in while a student at Kent State University in the early 90's. In 1995, as an E-Mail Administrator for Caliber Technology (now part of Fedex) he was tasked with administering Sendmail on both Slackware Linux and Solaris Systems. His first home install of Linux was MkLinux DR1 in 1996 on his 60 Mhz PowerMac. Since then Brian has been working and consulting on Linux and it's uses in the Enterprise to support everything from E-Mail, Firewalls, Web and File serving to custom cluster solutions and grid solutions. Brian has had the opportunity to work in both Fortune 500 companies and small 2 person organizations. This has given him the unique insight into the differences every size business faces.

There are several articles out there on this out there but the one at ZDnet.com was both clear, as complete as possible and short. The article covers the exact split but here is the short review. Attachmate's old business and the identity management parts of Novell will become one part of the company. Everything that was Novell before they bought Suse are now Novell again. Finally and most important to use here Suse is going back to it's roots and back to Germany. The sad news is that the folks connected to the Mono process were let liad off. Not to worry though the leader of the team and the project has hit the ground running and started his own company.

Brian started working with *nix in while a student at Kent State University in the early 90's. In 1995, as an E-Mail Administrator for Caliber Technology (now part of Fedex) he was tasked with administering Sendmail on both Slackware Linux and Solaris Systems. His first home install of Linux was MkLinux DR1 in 1996 on his 60 Mhz PowerMac. Since then Brian has been working and consulting on Linux and it's uses in the Enterprise to support everything from E-Mail, Firewalls, Web and File serving to custom cluster solutions and grid solutions. Brian has had the opportunity to work in both Fortune 500 companies and small 2 person organizations. This has given him the unique insight into the differences every size business faces.

Andreas Jaeger Program Manager for openSuSE at Novell and the team he works with think that maybe it's time for a change. They have come up with a list of eight variants on the numbering part of their naming for future releases. They want people's input so here is your chance. The possiblity of going Octal left me with a smile on my face. In reality they should probably adopt a date driven versioning like Ubuntu, Mandriva and Fedora. Check out the post and the explanations of how they came up with the list. Then let them know what you think.

Brian started working with *nix in while a student at Kent State University in the early 90's. In 1995, as an E-Mail Administrator for Caliber Technology (now part of Fedex) he was tasked with administering Sendmail on both Slackware Linux and Solaris Systems. His first home install of Linux was MkLinux DR1 in 1996 on his 60 Mhz PowerMac. Since then Brian has been working and consulting on Linux and it's uses in the Enterprise to support everything from E-Mail, Firewalls, Web and File serving to custom cluster solutions and grid solutions. Brian has had the opportunity to work in both Fortune 500 companies and small 2 person organizations. This has given him the unique insight into the differences every size business faces.